“Ask not for a lighter load but for broader shoulders”

“What you don't see with your eyes don't invent with your tongue.”

“Worries go down better with soup than without.”

“When you have no choice mobilize the spirit of courage.”

“Make sure to send a lazy man for the Angel of Death.”

“The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law.”

“When I started writingI was a sick teenagedfuck inside who partlythought I was the newMarquis de Sade, a bodydoomed to communicatewith Satan who was us-ing my sickness as hishome away from home,and...”

“A witty saying proves nothing.”

“There are no facts only interpretations.”

“Having friends was weird . . . but in a good way.”

“I always make sure that the world will prove me right. It gives me the freedom to contradict myself.”

“My peak? Would I even have one? I hardly had had anything you could call a life. A few ripples. some rises and falls. But that's it. Almost nothing. Nothing born of nothing. I'd loved and been love...”